BEIJING, June 2 (Reuters) - Li Xiaohong, a former senior

Chinese anti-graft official, is "suspected of serious violations

of discipline and law" and is undergoing disciplinary review and

probe, a statement from the Central Commission for Discipline

Inspection showed on Tuesday.

* Li's career spanned China's top anti-corruption agency,

Beijing's municipal government as well as the Chinese securities

regulator and brokerages, including posts as chairman of China

Securities and the now-defunct Huaxia Securities in the early

2000s.

* Li, 73, was a senior aide to China's now-retired graft

buster Wang Qishan, both while Wang was Beijing's mayor in the

mid-2000s and at the CCDI in the 2010s.

* Wang led the Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog

during Xi Jinping's first term as China's top leader, overseeing

one of the most sweeping corruption crackdowns in modern Chinese

history.

* Li was appointed the discipline chief of the China

Securities Regulatory Commission in 2011, before becoming

director of the CCDI-based Office of the Central Leading Group

for Inspection Work in 2013, public records show.

* Another of Wang's former aides at CCDI, Dong Hong, who had

also been a close associate of Li, was investigated in 2020.

* Dong was sentenced to death with reprieve in 2022 for

"illegally accepting money and property" worth more than 463

million yuan ($68.47 million) in total, state media reported.

($1 = 6.7624 Chinese yuan renminbi)